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Introduction to Special Issue: Muslim Cosmopolitanism: Movement, Identity, and Contemporary Reconfigurations

Introduction to Special Issue: Muslim Cosmopolitanism: Movement, Identity, and Contemporary... Cosmopolitanism has become the new buzzword of the past two decades. Some of its meanings can be traced to the Cynics or the Stoics in Greek antiquity, others to the 18 th century elaboration of the concept by Immanuel Kant. Some authors even posit a new cosmopolitanism linked to the contemporary processes of globalization, deregulation of markets, post‐nationalism, migration, and feminism (e.g. Hannerz 2004 ). Derived from the Greek conjunction of “world” ( cosmos ) and “city” ( polis ), cosmopolitanism describes a “citizen of the world,” one who is not rootless but embedded in concentric circles of identity and “puts right before country, and universal reason before the symbols of national belonging” ( Nussbaum 1994 ). Cosmopolitanism may denote a certain outlook on the world, a social and cultural condition, a political project, a political subjectivity, an attitude, and finally, a practice or competence ( Vertovec and Cohen 2003 :8–14). Appiah's influential moral manifesto intertwines two strands in his interpretation of the concept: One is the idea that we have obligations to others, obligations that stretch beyond those to whom we are related by the ties of kith and kind, or even the more formal ties of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png City & Society Wiley

Introduction to Special Issue: Muslim Cosmopolitanism: Movement, Identity, and Contemporary Reconfigurations

LEICHTMAN, MARA A.; SCHULZ, DOROTHEA
City & Society , Volume 24 (1) – Apr 1, 2012
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Abstract

Cosmopolitanism has become the new buzzword of the past two decades. Some of its meanings can be traced to the Cynics or the Stoics in Greek antiquity, others to the 18 th century elaboration of the concept by Immanuel Kant. Some authors even posit a new cosmopolitanism linked to the contemporary processes of globalization, deregulation of markets, post‐nationalism, migration, and feminism (e.g. Hannerz 2004 ). Derived from the Greek conjunction of “world” ( cosmos ) and “city” ( polis ), cosmopolitanism describes a “citizen of the world,” one who is not rootless but embedded in concentric circles of identity and “puts right before country, and universal reason before the symbols of national belonging” ( Nussbaum 1994 ). Cosmopolitanism may denote a certain outlook on the world, a social and cultural condition, a political project, a political subjectivity, an attitude, and finally, a practice or competence ( Vertovec and Cohen 2003 :8–14). Appiah's influential moral manifesto intertwines two strands in his interpretation of the concept: One is the idea that we have obligations to others, obligations that stretch beyond those to whom we are related by the ties of kith and kind, or even the more formal ties of

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City & Society – Wiley

Published: Apr 1, 2012

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